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Fado, sometimes called the Portuguese blues, is a centuries-old folk style traditionally used to express saudade--nostalgic melancholy. It's an ideal vehicle for the kind of voice that makes people weep into their vodka and tonics, and Portugal's eminent fado chanteuse, Cristina Branco, 28, has such a voice...
Resistance Records' catalog is heavy on rock, but it has branched out into genres such as "hate country" and "hate folk" music. It has a website and an Internet radio station, Resistance Radio. Whatever the music's propaganda value, hate-group monitors believe Resistance may be bringing in more than $1.5 million in annual revenues, perhaps three times as much as when Pierce bought it. "He's making money hand over fist," says TJ Leyden, a onetime hate-rock promoter who today consults for the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Task Force Against Hate. The Wiesenthal Center believes Resistance...
That's where the Internet broadcasts of terrestrial stations come in. Alaskans can tune in to the online WFMU as easily as New Jerseyans and thereby subject themselves to a cabal of DJs whose interests include Somalian folk, Italian film scores and klezmer. For that matter, a metal fan from Beijing can log on to BBC.com and come across a Manchester drum-'n'-bass turntablist featured on the home page...
...FIDDLE FOLK The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, vital forces in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk-music scene, blaze a trail for Irish music in America and inspire a number of other singers, including Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand...
...news report of his sentence concluded he had been sent "by the Dalai [Lama] clique with expenditures and equipment provided by a certain foreign country." But shortly before his disappearance, Choephel sent the first 16 hours of his videotapes out of the country with American tourists. The tapes show folk songs and dances that seem to pose little threat to any country's national security...